We had a family quartet and this is one of the songs we sang in very close harmony one. Down by the station, close to the fountain, I was cutting kindling wood to buy( or build) a boat( a great big boat), down by the station close to the fountain I was cutting kindling wood to buy a boat.Kindling wood,kindling wood, I was cutting kindling wood to buy a boat. We then synched into "Oh that little old red shawl my mother wore" I am 87 years old and the the other members of my quartet are all gone, but I woke up this morning singing about kindling wood.